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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Azubah Cash Journal |
| Reference | MSS 220/LOG 312 |
| Library | Nantucket Historical Association |
| Collection | Ships' Logs Collection |
| Date | 1 Oct 1850 - 9 Oct 1854 |
| Author / Creator | Cash, Azubah B |
| Description | Journal kept by Azubah Cash, wife of the captain, while onboard the whaling ship Columbia. Captain and Mrs Cash also had their children onboard. The narrative offers a weekly account of life on the ship (for the sailors and the family) and in Hawaii, where Azubah stopped to give birth to another son. |
| Document Type | Journal, Logbook, Manuscript |
| Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce |
| Keywords | whaling, family, wife, birth, children, baby, husband, sailor's life, seasickness, social life, meals, education, school, reading, pastimes, horse riding, passengers, food, rations, medicine, seaman duties, carpenter, mail, indigenous peoples, church, missionary, health, loneliness, snow, storms, death, drowning, funeral |
| Countries | USA; Yemen; Russia; Samoa |
| Places | Hawaii; Arctic Ocean; Southern Pacific; Northern Pacific; Sea of Okhotsk; Mocha |
| Ports | Nantucket, USA |
| Ships | Columbia |
| People | William Cash; Charles G Coffin; Henry Coffin |
| Additional Information | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Nantucket Historical Association catalogue. |
| Copyright | Nantucket Historical Association |
